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On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 31, 2:43 am, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On 12/30/2011 4:23 AM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
>>
>> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIuF5DcsbKU
>>
>> > The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D
>> > computer animation which holds that when human replicas look and act
>> > almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a
>> > response of revulsion among human observers. The valley in question
>> > is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a
>> > function of a robot s human likeness.
>>
>> >http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Mori_Uncanny_Valle...
>>
>> > Shouldn't our computation be pleased with the idea of being exported
>> > out of it's slow and error prone flesh?
>>
>> The valley occurs because something that looks and acts almost, but not
>> exactly like a
>> normal human being is also something that acts like a sick or psychotic or
>> otherwise
>> strange human being. Like a human being pretending to be a different human
>> being - which
>> is a danger sign. It's just generalized xenophobia.
>
> But what is the computational justification for xenophobia? Why does
> novel or unconventional computation = 'strange' rather than 'wonderful
> variation'?
>
> Craig
>
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